[148377] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: community strings for Reliance Globalcom
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Petach)
Fri Jan 13 12:23:38 2012
In-Reply-To: <F7E88736-F19C-4456-8A4E-DAEBB77C6E9D@shortestpathfirst.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:22:40 -0800
From: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
To: Stefan Fouant <sfouant@shortestpathfirst.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Stefan Fouant
<sfouant@shortestpathfirst.net> wrote:
> I could be wrong, but I think OP was requesting for BGP communities. I do=
n't think he was asking for their SNMP community strings - I've never heard=
of a situation where a provider would allow their customers to poll their =
routers via SNMP.
>
> Or did I miss something?
Sorry--I was knee-deep in digging through IPv6 OIDs, so my
brain was all awash with SNMP community strings when I
saw the post. You're right, in retrospect BGP communities
made more sense.
Apologies for the confusion.
Matt
> Stefan Fouant
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> On Jan 12, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com> wrote=
:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Philip Lavine <source_route@yahoo.com> =
wrote:
>>> does anybody have the community strings for Reliance Globalcom
>>>
>>
>> You might check to see if they left the default "public" read-only
>> string in place, but I highly doubt it. =A0Most people are pretty carefu=
l
>> to pick at least somewhat hard to guess community strings, and
>> to ACL them off from external querying.
>>
>> Matt
>>
>
